A star is born. American Idol viewers met Kelsie Dolin during the second week of auditions — and she left a big impression.“I’m very shy.
Stepping outside of my comfort zone is very nerve-wracking,” Dolin, 18, told the cameras during the Sunday, March 6 episode of the ABC competition show. “I’m doing this audition for my grandma and I want to make her proud.
She is 100 percent here with me.”Dolin walked into the audition room in muck boots and a baseball cap, and judge Luke Bryan immediately warmed up to her. “I was going online and [an ad for American Idol auditions] just kept coming up,” she told the judges. “My grandma passed last September.
So I just kind of thought it was her telling me, I don’t know, to sign up for it.”The West Virginia native sang a hit from the first American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson, during her audition.
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